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Located beneath the three stars that form the belt of Orion the Hunter, the Orion Nebula is one of the ...

So we heard you like the International Space Station, so we made an ISS inside the ISS. Humor aside, I ...

NASA  recently issued a call-out to all those interested in joining a special, four-month long study, in which a stay ...

This is the kind of engineering feat that sounds so preposterous, so crazy, so ... foolish, that it might actually ...

The hunt for the second Earth, a similar life-bearing paradise like our own, rages on, and while no candidate came ...

Astronomers at NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory have come across a true astronomical oddity at the outskirts of the Milky Way, ...

Night is quick to sound the alarm for most of us that it's time to hit he sack. While you're ...

Space offers incredibly fascinating experimental conditions for various scientific studies, otherwise very hard or practically impossible to replicate on Earth. ...

For the past three years, scientists have been analyzing  data fed back by the 2008 NASA Phoenix mission to Mars, which ...

Last year NASA permanently retired the iconic shuttle program, since it became obsolete, too expensive, difficult to maintain and no ...

A while ago NASA launched its next generation weather satellite, the Suomi NPP satellite, into low-orbit, on a mission to  collect critical ...

An array formed by the greatest space telescopes in the world  first discover, then photograph this ancient galaxy from the ...

We're at the dawn of a new exciting era - the private space age. More and more companies and influential ...

Heralded by NASA as the best meteor shower of the year, the annual Geminid skyline spectacle is set to peak ...

Since NASA retired its space shuttle program this summer, the space agency has been left with no viable means of ...

This summer Japan was hit by a tremendous 9.0 Richter scale earthquake, which generated one of the most powerful tsunamis ...

Every NASA spacecraft sent to missions on other space bodies, like other planets, asteroids or moons, needs to adhere to ...

On November 26, after countless delays, budget overruns and buckets of sweat, humankind's most capable machine of landing on and ...

The ever faithful Hubble telescope has offered us yet another fantastic glimpse into the Universe's hidden gems. Captioned below is ...

Two weeks ago, panic engulfed the Russian space agency after one of its dearest project, the  $170 million Phobos-Grunt mission, which ...

The Vostok capsule, in which Yuri Gagarin embarked on April 12, 1961 to become the first person in space.  This ...

  Jupiter's moon Europa. (c) Michael Benson / Kinetikon Pictures / Corbis Yesterday, NASA held a press briefing where scientists ...

Europa, the icy satellite of Jupiter, is covered in a thick crust of scarred and cross-hatched ice. Missions to Europa, ...

Many children dream of becoming astronauts, but for most, the dream just gets lost somewhere along the way; but that ...

The privately built SpaceX shuttle is only a few weeks away from its first space flight towards the International Space ...

(c) NASA After the International Space Station was completed, scientists noticed that exposure to weightlessness may have some deleterious effects ...

According to NASA, a large asteroid called 2005 YU55 is expected to pass at some 201,700 miles of Earth on ...

Almost one year and a half ago six volunteers embarked on a fictive mission to Mars, designed to simulate the ...

Part of an ambitious NASA survey over the Antarctic, which intends on 3D mapping the continent's glaciers in detail, one ...

There is still a good chance we might find life on Mars, but if we really want to do this, ...

Trekkies might rejoice at the news that NASA has recently decided to fund a research group employed to study how ...

In just a few hours, at 5 p.m. EDT, China will make another giant leap forward in its ever ambitious space ...

In a landmark decision that will mark the future of commercial space flight, Boeing announced an agreement with Space Florida ...

Yesterday NASA tested a 18,000 pound mock-up of the ambitious Orion spacecraft in a water basin, to simulate how it ...

A new study published by researchers at University of Hong Kong has produced controversial waves among the astronomy community, as ...

Using a pair of satellites that monitor the Earth, NASA recorded over 10.000.000 fires throughout the planet; they then took ...

Satellite deployments make up most of the space launches in any given year, however it's also a highly risky operation. ...

Back in 2008, the Japanese Kaguya spacecraft made a fascinating discovery when it found a metres-deep cave in the Sea of ...

A virtual trek, that is. NASA has just released a stunning video comprised of 309 photos the agency's Opportunity Rover ...

The most popular video sharing website in the world, YouTube, has teamed up with NASA and several other key figures ...

As the winter ski season is rapidly approaching, snow sports enthusiasts all over the world are already planing their trips, ...

Well hopefully the days when children dream about being astronauts haven't withered, and there are still people out there who ...

Armageddon can wait, NASA's in charge for a little while longer. The space agency recently released to the general public ...

Astronomers at  UC Santa Cruz have set  a new benchmark for cosmological research for decades to come maybe, after successfully simulating ...

This news couldn't have come any sooner. It was just last week that we reported how gamers made a monumental ...

A while ago I posted a piece on NASA's Spirit Rover last transmitted photo from Mars, before it ultimately died ...

Earlier this year, NASA launched the Argentine SAC-D satellite that has a number of instruments whose sole goal is that ...

In January, 1997 Lottie Williams was strolling through a park in Tulsa, Oklahoma with her friends around 3:30 AM, when a ...

A remarkable discovery which turns once again turns fiction into reality, the Kepler spacecraft has found the first confirmed planet ...

Following the recent failed launch of an unmanned vehicle in a three stage Soyuz rocket this past Wednesday, the International ...